Hi, I am using suse 9.0 on workstation via suse 9.0 gateway to internet. Is there an application that you can send a fax created on your pc directly to a recipient fax machine? Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc? Can this be done via the gateway as above? If so which pc will take the call and fax? Kindly some pointers Please Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning.
* Johan; <johansche@absamail.co.za> on 31 Mar, 2004 wrote:
Hi,
I am using suse 9.0 on workstation via suse 9.0 gateway to internet.
Is there an application that you can send a fax created on your pc directly to a recipient fax machine?
Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc?
Can this be done via the gateway as above? If so which pc will take the call and fax?
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2004-03-31 at 11:58 +0200, Johan wrote:
Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc?
hylafax.
To Togan, Carlos, et al: Problem with hylafax is how to set it up, as the reference and on line are not really clear on this.
On Sunday 04 April 2004 23:47, John Boyle wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2004-03-31 at 11:58 +0200, Johan wrote:
Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc?
hylafax.
To Togan, Carlos, et al: Problem with hylafax is how to set it up, as the reference and on line are not really clear on this.
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been battling hylafax for a long time at work, trying to implement all sorts of partytricks customers want (and if you thing Hylafax is tricky on SuSE, try getting it to go on Debian Woody...) The problem with the docs are that they refer to settings that you have to specify in the config file, but it seldom tells you *which* file - there are many. I've read through everything on Hylafax's website, and a lot of third party documents, and there are still a lot of things that I'm unclear about. Back to your question, if you just want to send faxes, you could probably use (I think) mgetty and associated tools (somebody correct me if that's the wrong package please). Hylafax however, is worth the hassle if you want to receive a lot of faxes, want to use more than one modem (64 is the most I've seen so far), if you want an e-mail to fax and/or fax to e-mail gateway, and if you want to do complicated fax routing, like this modem accepts faxes that prints to that printer, while the next modem does something entirely different. Very powerful, very robust. Hans
On Sunday 04 April 2004 23:47, John Boyle wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2004-03-31 at 11:58 +0200, Johan wrote:
Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc?
hylafax.
To Togan, Carlos, et al: Problem with hylafax is how to set it up, as the reference and on line are not really clear on this.
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been battling hylafax for a long time at work, trying to implement all sorts of partytricks customers want (and if you
Just a quick comment: At one time I had a FAX program that would _send_ faxes from Windows. I thought it was helpful, even tho I only used it a few times. But I have a feeling that anyone who needs serious FAX capability, particularly to receive, would be far better off to buy an inexpensive FAX machine, and pay for a separate telephone line. Just my 2 cents. --doug At 12:17 AM 4/5/2004 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: thing
Hylafax is tricky on SuSE, try getting it to go on Debian Woody...)
The problem with the docs are that they refer to settings that you have to specify in the config file, but it seldom tells you *which* file - there are many. I've read through everything on Hylafax's website, and a lot of third party documents, and there are still a lot of things that I'm unclear about.
Back to your question, if you just want to send faxes, you could probably use (I think) mgetty and associated tools (somebody correct me if that's the wrong package please).
Hylafax however, is worth the hassle if you want to receive a lot of faxes, want to use more than one modem (64 is the most I've seen so far), if you want an e-mail to fax and/or fax to e-mail gateway, and if you want to do complicated fax routing, like this modem accepts faxes that prints to that printer, while the next modem does something entirely different. Very powerful, very robust.
Hans
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The Sunday 2004-04-04 at 21:31 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At one time I had a FAX program that would _send_ faxes from Windows. I thought it was helpful, even tho I only used it a few times. But I have a feeling that anyone who needs serious FAX capability, particularly to receive, would be far better off to buy an inexpensive FAX machine, and pay for a separate telephone line. Just my 2 cents. --doug
I wouldn't... except the separate phone line, that is a must. I would use a server, probably with hylafax, and a two phone jacks modem. Then, I would also plug an external standalone fax machine conected to the output jack of the modem. If the computer is down, the external fax would pick it up. Also, I think I could get a combo fax-printer, so that hylafax would print the received faxes to the fax machine doubling up as printer. The advantages are: - The received faxes are filed on disk, and can be read from the network. - I can send from any PC. - I can manually send from the external fax machine as well (either that, or I have to manually scan pages and compose a fax on a PC with appropiate software) That's, of course, for any serious bussiness, not for a home setup or low usage. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The Sunday 2004-04-04 at 14:47 -0700, John Boyle wrote:
To Togan, Carlos, et al: Problem with hylafax is how to set it up, as the reference and on line are not really clear on this.
/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html A simple setup is not too difficult. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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